MEDICAL
MALPRACTICE
When
you
need
medical
assistance,
you
usually
go
to
a
hospital,
however,
sometimes
you
can
be
a
victim
of
medical
malpractice
.
Nowadays
it
is
a
widespread
phenomenon
in
some
Italian
hospitals
ant
it
may
represent
a
serious
problem
for
our
future
generations.
Medical
malpractice
is
a
professional
negligence,
by
act
or
omissions
by
a
healthcare
provider
in
which
the
treatment
falls
below
the
accepted
standard
of
practice
in
the
medical
community
and
causes
injury
or
even
death
to
the
patient.
Most
cases
involve
medical
errors.
A
survey
which
analyzed
the
last
two
years
of
medical
activity
showed
that
in
Italy
there
are
19
cases
of
malpractice
per
month.
Sometimes
malpractice
means
“injury”,
but
it
often
leads
to
death.
Recently,
in
Sicily,
doctors
used
to
give
unsuitable
prescriptions
or
cures
to
earn
money.
In
the
north
of
Italy,
some
hospitals
treat
the
patients’
organs
as
a
means
to
improve
the
trade
of
organs
and
sell
them
to
other
foreign
countries.
Luckily
these
horrible
crimes
have
been
discovered
and
doctors,
hospital
managers
and
nurses
have
been
arrested
,
and
no-‐profit
and
organizations
have
become
helpful
to
supply
appropriate
healthcare.
A
recent
survey
has
shown
that
these
no-‐profit
associations,
such
as
the
Red
Cross”
together
with
doctors,
scientists
and
nurses
are
trying
to
are
fighting
to
improve
medical
practice
by
unmasking
these
horrible
acts
and
get
better
hospital
structures.
Indeed,
in
spite
of
all,
there
are
always
more
cutting
edge
medical
structures
and
organizations,
which
are
created
with
the
aim
of
making
Italian
Medical
Sector
one
of
the
best
in
Europe.
Giuseppe
Minniti